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TIL that autopilot was first invented in 1912

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R5Ke8 TIL Charles Lindbergh's flight, while being the first solo transatlantic nonstop crossing, was not the first ever; that was achieved 8 years earlier by British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919
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